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What Noah is thankful for...

Noah brought home an art project from his 2nd grade class. It is a wreath of paper fall leaves, and in the middle (on a paper plate), it says "I am thankful" and then many of the leaves list things that Noah is thankful for.

His wreath lists:

*for my school

*for my house

*for my church

*for my family

*for my pets

*for my games

*for food

I have to admit that when I saw "for my church" on the list, I almost cried.

It, of course, was something that weighed on our minds when we decided to convert to Catholicism -- what would the kids think? How would they handle us leaving the only church they had never known? (Although it was also the only denomination I'd ever been part of, I had at least experienced changing churches because of moving.) But, no, we knew there would be times we would drive by our "old" church on the way to things around town. What would the kids say? How would we explain why we converted?

It did come up, by the way, and I was at a loss for words when trying to explain it to the kids. I just told them, "Mommy and Daddy thought and prayed about it a lot, and we thought that God told us that He wanted us to become Catholic. And, so then we were very excited to start working to become Catholic, and to go to a new church."

And, so at each time when I see the children embracing their new church and new faith, I am often left a little misty eyed, and with a full heart of praise for God, because He really does work in mysterious and wonderful ways.

If you're a scrapbooker who loves ribbon...

I totally have the product for you! Well...I don't actually have it yet, per se, but I have ordered it finally. It's been out of stock everywhere that seems to carry it, and I just got notification last night that they were back in stock, so I snatched one up as fast as I could!


It is the Pull-EZ Ribbon Purse by Your Pictured Memories. (This link and the picture both link back to the place where I ordered it where it is currently in stock. I am borrowing the picture from that store, but hopefully it's okay, since I'm trying to send people there. LOL)


One of my sweetest friends, Kim, whom I only get to see about once a year had one of these numbers at a long weekend crop, and everyone went crazy over it. This thing is just the coolest, but I don't think this picture does it justice, so you'll have to believe me.


I always think it's a good indicator when Kim buys something, because she doesn't seem to go run out and buy all of the latest things just because they are new. She buys what she thinks is good and useful. (She's smart like that!)

So, anyway -- you just put all your ribbon in it (and it holds a ton!), and you poke a little bit of each ribbon through a hole. That way, you can see all of your ribbon easily, it doesn't take up a ton of storage room, and it's wicked cute!

I'll have to update when mine actually arrives! (I ordered it without a second thought, but then since it ended up being almost $27 with shipping, I think I'll ask Eric to give it to me for my birthday, which is in December.)

Oh -- and here is the link to see them for just $2 more in purple, pink, or blue.

(Picture used from www.scrapbook.com.)

My Dad just sent me this YouTube video about Christmas

Okay, so the song isn't going to win a Grammy or anything, but I enjoyed it and thought I would share it. (I especially like a line that deals with there being a lot of holidays in February.)